Nicholas Pegg
@nicholaspegg.bsky.social
Actor, writer, director, gardener. Author of The Complete David Bowie. Probably the only Equity member to have played Hamlet, a Dalek and an otter.
I’ve no idea what I did to help, but you’re welcome!
November 10, 2025 at 9:23 AM
I’ve no idea what I did to help, but you’re welcome!
Another lovely piece, thank you! A further indication that Terrance was working from the scripts rather than from the TV broadcast is his retention of ‘cobalt bombs’. On screen they became ‘Cyber-bombs’, which Michael Briant told me was part of a general decision ‘to make everything Cyber’.
November 9, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Another lovely piece, thank you! A further indication that Terrance was working from the scripts rather than from the TV broadcast is his retention of ‘cobalt bombs’. On screen they became ‘Cyber-bombs’, which Michael Briant told me was part of a general decision ‘to make everything Cyber’.
The cast includes Mr Huckle from Terror of the Zygons and Stotz from The Caves of Androzani (so no surprise that the production manager was Douglas Camfield’s trusty lieutenant Graeme Harper). It’s excellent.
November 9, 2025 at 10:55 AM
The cast includes Mr Huckle from Terror of the Zygons and Stotz from The Caves of Androzani (so no surprise that the production manager was Douglas Camfield’s trusty lieutenant Graeme Harper). It’s excellent.
We watched this a while ago. Lovely stuff. Marvelled at the staggering amount of booze they get through per episode. Also notable for being the final screened work of Roger Delgado, who plays a villain in one episode.
November 7, 2025 at 7:19 PM
We watched this a while ago. Lovely stuff. Marvelled at the staggering amount of booze they get through per episode. Also notable for being the final screened work of Roger Delgado, who plays a villain in one episode.
Thank you, Tony. No, not quite that far just yet, but only a couple of years to go! Hope all’s well with you x
November 5, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Thank you, Tony. No, not quite that far just yet, but only a couple of years to go! Hope all’s well with you x
A truly remarkable pop star. He looked and sounded amazing. Listening again to the greatest hits, you’re struck by how arthouse it all sounds. The opening bars of Prince Charming are surely among the weirdest noises ever heard in a chart-topping mega-hit. He took the avant garde into the mainstream.
November 3, 2025 at 8:18 PM
A truly remarkable pop star. He looked and sounded amazing. Listening again to the greatest hits, you’re struck by how arthouse it all sounds. The opening bars of Prince Charming are surely among the weirdest noises ever heard in a chart-topping mega-hit. He took the avant garde into the mainstream.
How have I never heard of this?! Is it worth seeking out? (Which is a polite way of asking: is it actually any good?)
November 3, 2025 at 7:20 PM
How have I never heard of this?! Is it worth seeking out? (Which is a polite way of asking: is it actually any good?)
(26 Christmases later, by which time the pantomime season was a little shorter and the posters a little smarter, I found myself back at the same theatre…)
October 21, 2025 at 2:41 PM
(26 Christmases later, by which time the pantomime season was a little shorter and the posters a little smarter, I found myself back at the same theatre…)
Mid-February? Pah. For the 1981-82 season, Nottingham Theatre Royal rolled out a glorious Aladdin starring Barbara Windsor, Keith Harris and Billy Dainty, which just kept on selling and being extended. It finally closed on 10th April and made the Guinness Book of Records. I saw it three times.
October 21, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Mid-February? Pah. For the 1981-82 season, Nottingham Theatre Royal rolled out a glorious Aladdin starring Barbara Windsor, Keith Harris and Billy Dainty, which just kept on selling and being extended. It finally closed on 10th April and made the Guinness Book of Records. I saw it three times.